Multimillion Dollar Machine News Today

Deep sea, called a remotely operating vehicle, r.o.b. for short. >> are you getting a signal on the r.o.b. beacons as well? >> reporter: the multimillion dollar machine is tethered to a vessel, dropped in the water by a cable and slowly, remotely lowered to the sea floor by pilots in a control room located inside the ship. >> reporter: the r.o.b. is equipped with cameras. >> a pilot monitor, and a co-pilot monitor. >> reporter: meaning an r.o.b. like this one could lay the first eyes on the wrec...

>> the two key pieces of evidence that outweighed all other evidence are the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. >> reporter: cave cnn an exclusive look at the r.o.v. triton xls. >> are you getting a signal? >> reporter: the multimillion dollar machine is tethered to a vessel, dropped into the water by a cable -- >> we have an altitude of 28 meters. >> reporter: and slowly remotely lowered to the sea floor by pilots in a control room located inside a ship. the r.o.v. is eequippe...